Miss You (Rolling Stones song)

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Miss you
  DE 12 06/26/1978 (21 weeks)
  AT 13 07/15/1978 (20 weeks)
  CH 11 07/08/1978 (9 weeks)
  UK 3 06/03/1978 (13 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link May 27, 1978 (20 weeks)

Miss You is a song of the Rolling Stones in 1978, that of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards was written. It appeared on the album Some Girls .

history

Jagger and Ronnie Wood asserted that the song was not written as a disco song , while Keith Richards said, “… 'Miss You' was a damn good disco record; it was calculated to be one. ” (German: "'Miss You' was a damn good disco record, it was designed to be one"). Charlie Watts said: “A lot of those songs like 'Miss You' on 'Some Girls'… were heavily influenced by going to the discos. You can hear it in a lot of those four-to-the-floor and the Philadelphia-style drumming. " (German: "Many of these songs like 'Miss You' on the album 'Some Girls' were heavily influenced by going to discos. You can hear it with the 4-to-the-floor rhythm and the Philadelphia style of the drums"). With the bass parts, Bill Wyman initially oriented himself on the demo version on which Billy Preston had played bass. Chris Kimsey , who was involved in the recording as a sound engineer , said: “Wyman went… to quite a few clubs before he got that bass line sorted out” (German: “Wyman visited numerous clubs before he found out the bass figure”), the according to Kimsey made the piece. Jagger sang the characteristic “Ooohhs” in falsetto during the refrains, often in unison with the harmonica , guitar and electric piano .

Unlike most songs on the album Some Girls looked at Miss You several guest musicians such as Sugar Blue (the harmonica playing), Ian McLagan ( Wurlitzer electric piano ) and Mel Collins ( saxophone ) with.

The publication took place on 10 May 1978. In the UK, the piece next to a normal single was released as a 30-cm Maxi Single in pink colored vinyl with extended playing time of 8'26 ". The B-side Faraway Eyes was shortened compared to the album title (without Ron Woods steel guitar solo). The disco song became a number one hit in Canada and the United States , and the band's last number one hit in the United States.

The song could be heard in the episode Hot Pavement Florida in Miami Vice and the film Short Distance . Miss You came in at number 498 in the list of the 500 best songs of all time compiled by the music magazine Rolling Stone .

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sources for chart placements: Chart statistics for Miss You , accessed on December 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Miss You at Timeisonourside.com
  3. ↑ Miss You at Soundonsound.com
  4. ↑ UK maxi single 12 EMI 2802
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0garcpH0dY4